What is the shelf life of Ikea shelves?

Editing photos that I’m in love with is like therapy. I spend so much time in a touch up and I don’t even mind.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a young, beautiful model either. If I nailed the light for something, it’s so much fun to edit older people as well.

Sort of like the image above. I love how this woman’s portrait came out.

The key is to make people look great. I try really hard not to make skin look plastic-y. And I think I’ve grown into a few techniques that cover blemishes while avoiding that downward spiral that can suck some photographers in.

I might be wrong. I mean, I know that my retouching isn’t exactly “natural.”

But it’s come a long way.

At this point, I’m hoping to go through a few more editorials to take my work to the next level.

But the techniques I use are a mixture of different airbrushing strokes that try hard not to cover up pores exactly. It’s not easy, but it’s not hard.